ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,558, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and related device" was invented by Liankui Lin (Dongguan, China), Lun Zhang (Dongguan, China) and Jun Luo (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method and a related device. The method includes an OLT obtains a first uplink transmission parameter of a first terminal corresponding to a first ONU. Then the OLT determines, based on the first uplink transmission parameter, a cycle period for performing data transmission with the first ONU, where each cycle period includes an uplink time window a...